When are we finally going to get "it?" This is such a tired concept already. Nobody does it for love, not on TV, not on this stupid show, not bloody likely.

The funny thing is, we all want to delude ourselves into thinking that it's not contrived and we are not being manipulated.

We are.

True...this is just like the first Survivor, when we all thought that the person w/ best survival skills would win, only to find out the cruel truth that the person that was the most ruthless with the best strategy won.

Of all these "dating" shows, I think only one has produced anything close to a stable relationship after the show, so Erin would really be naively optimistic and/or romantically desparate to take "love" over the "money." Although this may make her look like a "gold digger", it really just shows that she understands the reality of Reality TV better than most of the audience.

After thinking about it for a while I don't think she is a gold digger. If she is a gold digger, she would have kept Rob and gotten rid of Chad. Chad is the only one that might pick the money. Rob and Wade would pick her then she gets the money and the guy. I think she is doing the same thing as Rob did in FLOM1